36 Crazyfists - Download 06AC/DC - Download 10Aerosmith - Download 10Alice in Chains - Download 06Alien Ant Farm - Sonisphere 09Alter Bridge - Download 11Amplifier - Download 06Anathema - Download 10Anthrax (twice) - Sonisphere 09 and Download 12April Divine - Staind gig in October 11Arch Enemy - Download 06Atreyu (twice, technically) - Download 06 and Download 10 - the times were printed wrong or changed both times so I only saw a few minutes at DL06 and three or four songs at DL10 - fuckers!Avenged Sevenfold (twice) - Download 06 and Download 11 (only the last few songs - clashed with Sevendust). Would've seen them at Reading 08 too but they pulled outBiffy Clyro - Download 12Billy Idol - Download 10Billy Talent - Download 12Björn Again - Sonisphere 09 - OMFG! Abba covers?! Supposedly rocked up but they sound just as bad as the originals. This "band" are an insult to Rock and covering a Metallica song half-way through their act is fucking sacrilegious! How the fuck did they end up at a metal festival and why did no-one attempt to assassinate them?!Black Label Society - Download 12Black Sabbath (four times) - Download 12, their own gig at the NIA, Birmingham in December 13, Download 16 (original line-up apart from Bill Ward - Tommy Clufetos from Ozzy's band was on drums), and on the last night of their farewell tour (4/2/2017)Black Stone Cherry (twice) - Their own show in December 08 and Download 11Black Tide - Bullet gig in November 08Bleeding Through - Bullet gig in November 08Bowling for Soup (twice) - Download 07 and Download 11 (only the last few songs)Bring Me The Horizon - Download 11 - caught a bit of it between Alter Bridge and KornBullet for My Valentine (five times) - Download 06, Reading 08, their own show in November 08, Sonisphere 09 and Download 11 (wanted to see them at DL10 but their slot clashed with Them Crooked Vultures')CKY - Download 11Clutch - Download 11Coheed & Cambria - Download 06Def Leppard - Download 11Deftones (twice) - Download 10 and Download 16Devildriver - Download 12The Dirty Youth - Download 12 (only a couple of songs)Disturbed - Download 11Down (twice) - Download 06 (mystery band, listed as ???? in the programme) and Download 11Dragonforce (twice) - Download 06, Download 07Duff McKagan's Loaded - Download 11Evanescence (or Herbal Essence as Harradine prefers to call them) - Download 07Evile - Supported MegadethFact - They were on the main stage at Sonisphere 09 because Coheed & Cambria had been delayed. They were trying to get the crowd going but instead just received comments such as "You're fat!"Feeder (twice) - First years ago at Ross International Festival and then at Reading Festival 08Five Finger Death Punch - Download 10 - cut short because they encouraged the audience to climb the barriers and get on the stage and someone got injuredFlyleaf - Download 10 - bastards made me miss most of Atreyu because they swapped slots and didn't bother to tell usFuneral for a Friend - Download 06Gallows (technically) - Reading 08 - saw a few minutes of their set between watching other bandsThe Gaslight Anthem - Download 11Guns N' Roses - Download 06 - Axl Rose is a cock. They were really late in the first place and then Axl slipped on the stage and fucked off for about 45 minutes or something. And of course it wasn't really Guns N' Roses, it was Axl Rose plus extras. It was a good performance thoughHeaven & Hell - Sonisphere 09 - basically Black Sabbath but with Dio instead of Ozzy - OMG, I've seen Iommi!Hellyeah - Download 07In Flames - Download 06Iron Maiden - Download 07Job for a Cowboy - Supported MegadethKilling Joke - Sonisphere 09Killswitch Engage (three times) - Download 07, Download 10 and Download 12Korn (three times, technically) - At DL06 Jonathan Davis was ill, so we saw Korn with singers from other bands, including Corey Taylor and Matt Heafy. At DL07 Korn played with Joey Jordison as their drummer, but they were on the second stage so we couldn't fit in and left. Finally got to see them properly at Download 11Kyuss Lives! - Download 12Lacuna Coil (twice) - Download 06 and Bullet gig in November 08Lamb of God (three times) - Download 07, Sonisphere 09 and Download 12Limp Bizkit - Sonisphere 09 - LOL, I actually enjoyed it - used to love them. They only played songs off their first three albums so all the ones I knew Linkin Park (twice) - Download 07 and Sonisphere 09Machine Head (three times) - Download 07, Sonisphere 09 and Download 12Marilyn Manson - Download 07Mastadon (twice) - Download 07 and Sonisphere 09. The night we saw them at Download, Leon swears he saw the guitarist's face in the dirt pattern on a paper plate we walked past. He thought it was Jesus' face for a second though, so we had a croud of people trying to see it. Obviously, we were completely soberMegadeth (five times) - Download 07, their own gig at Carling Academy Birmingham, Download 10, Download 12 and Download 16Metallica (five times) - Download 06, Reading 08, at the O2 Arena, London in 08, Sonisphere 09 and Download 12. Nothing can beat a live Metallica gig Mindless Self Indulgence - Reading 08 - saw the end while we were waiting for Feeder. They'd been moved up to replace Avenged Sevenfold. They are shitMotörhead - Download 10 - Slash joined them for one songMy Chemical Romance (technically) - Download 07 - went to watch the bottling after we realised there was no way we were gonna get into the Dimebag Darrell Stage to see Korn with Joey. I joined in with screaming "FUCK OFF!" at MCRMy Darkest Days - Download 11 - saw them while we were sheltering from the rainNightwish - Download 12Nine Inch Nails - Sonisphere 09 - boring as hell. They are pretty good when they get going, but unfortunately they rarely seem to get going, and when they finally do it eventually becomes boring and repetitiveNOFX - Download 12Papa Roach - Download 07The Pretty Reckless - Download 11Puddle of Mudd - Download 11 - better than I expected, though their best song was a cover of AC/DC's TNTQueens Of The Stone Age - Reading 08Rage Against The Machine (twice) - Reading 08 and Download 10Rival Sons - supporting Sabbath on the last night of their farewell tour, 2017Rob Zombie - Download 11Saxon - Sonisphere 09Serj Tankian - Reading 08Sevendust (twice) - Black Stone Cherry gig in December 08 and Download 11Shadows Fall - Download 07Skindred (twice) - Sonisphere 09 and Download 11Skunk Anansie - Download 11Slash & Myles Kennedy (twice) - Download 10 and Download 12 - Both times, they did a few songs off Slash's albums, as well as a few Guns N' Roses songs (better than Guns N' Roses did of course, and Myles' voice is perfect for them) and a Velvet Revolver song (Slither)Slayer - Download 07Soil (twice) - Download 06 and Sonisphere 09Soulfly - Download 06Soundgarden - Download 12Staind - At the HMV Institute, Birmingham in October 11Stapping Young Lad - Download 06Starseed - Download 11 - saw them while we were sheltering from the rain but I wasn't really paying attentionSteel Panther - Download 12Stone Gods - Black Stone Cherry gig in December 08Stone Sour (three times) - Download 06, Download 07 and Download 10 (although only the first half an hour or so that time because they clashed with Aerosmith)System of a Down - Download 11 - finally! I was starting to worry they wouldn't get back togetherTaking Back Sunday - Reading 08 - the singer had a permanent limp wrist :sTenacious D (twice) - Reading 08 and Download 12Them Crooked Vultures - Download 10 - I've finally seen Dave Grohl!!Thin Lizzy - Download 11Tool - Download 06Trivium (twice) - Download 06 and Download 12The Used - Sonisphere 09 - the singer said pretty much the same thing as me about Björn AgainUncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Black Sabbath gig at the NIA in December 13Velvet Revolver - Download 07 - Slash! They do Guns N' Roses songs better than Guns N' Roses doWicked Wisdom - Download 06 - Will Smith was on the stage too, but he didn't perform xDWolfmother - Download 07Young Guns (technically) - Download 10 - only saw a couple of songs before Zebrahead came onZebrahead - Download 10

Björn Again - Sonisphere 09 - OMFG! Abba covers?! Supposedly rocked up but they sound just as bad as the originals. This "band" are an insult to Rock and covering a Metallica song half-way through their act is fucking sacrilegious! How the fuck did they end up at a metal festival and why did no-one attempt to assassinate them?!